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Review: The Art of the Adventures of Tintin

The Art of the Adventures of Tintin The Art of the Adventures of Tintin by Chris Guise
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Art of The Adventures of Tintin was even better than I could have ever dreamed. This is my first "Art of" book, and I kind of knew what I was getting into but I was still surprised.

I didn't even mean to start reading this when I started reading this. We were given an assignment in art class to design a poster for the school play and I really had no ideas. I remembered that these "Art of" books are full of concept art so I decided to flip through this one. Well, next thing I knew I wasn't just flipping through it, I was completely engrossed in it. I flipped to the first page and started properly reading it.

This book was a good reading experience. Right off the bat Chris Guise lets the reader know that he's not going to bombard you with text, that he's gonna let the art do most of the talking and he's going to make the best "Art of" book he can. Well I'd say he did a pretty damn good job.

The book is absolutely LOADED with amazing artwork by all the staff at WETA Workshop. It was a nonstop stream of my mind just getting blown over and over again. They made so so so many concept paintings for pretty much every single scene, and all of them are fully rendered pieces that could easily stand on their own in a gallery or something. So many of them made my jaw literally drop because of the sheer amount of detail put into them. It was honestly absolutely amazing.

Somehing else that was cool to see is that near the beginning of the book we got to see some pictures of the motion capture process which was cool since I don't really know how that works. There wasn't too too much about this though, as the big bulk of the book was definitely the concept paintings. There was also some pictures from the very very begining of the movie process when they shot some live-action footage, so that was neat.

I have never actually watched the movie "The Adventures of Tintin". I saw a bit of the scene where they're in the water and the plane comes, but just because it was on TV, that's it. They purposely don't spoil the movie though, so if that's something you're worried about, don't be.

Anyway I think I've gushed about this enough. I also have The Art of Planes and The Art of Beowulf so we'll see when I get around to reading those.

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